Abstract:
An input device of the present invention is configured in the following manner: an input part includes electrode parts, which are contactable arranged with facing each other and one of which is to be an operation object, and a pressure-sensitive layer disposed between the electrode parts facing each other; a charge/discharge waveform forming part includes a charge/discharge circuit having a constant current source, a switching element, a capacitor and a resistor, and forms a charge/discharge waveform with a capacitance detection part and a resistance detection part connected; a charge/discharge waveform calculating part detects the change of a capacitance and of a pressure in the input part based on the charge/discharge waveform formed by the charge/discharge waveform forming part, and calculates an operation state, an operation position and an operation pressure.
Abstract:
A pressure sensitive conductive member is arranged in a through hole of a base-material bonding layer so as to be in contact with a peripheral-switch upper electrode and a peripheral-switch lower electrode, and when a force applied to a peripheral switch is transmitted to the pressure sensitive conductive member through an upper electrode base material and the upper electrode, a current flows, so that the upper electrode and the lower electrode are electrically connected.
Abstract:
In a method for connecting lead wires to a touch panel, the method includes the steps of: providing through holes 9a to 9d the number of which corresponds to the number of electrode ends by perforation in a lower electrode plate 3; using a metal-pin 11 having a pin-shaft 11b and a disk shaped pin-head 11a with a diameter larger than an outer diameter of the pin-shaft; inserting the pin-shaft 11b into a metal-pin fixing hole formed corresponding to the through hole 9a at a circuit 10c in a connector tail of a lead wire 10, whereby the pin-shaft 11b is erectly provided on the connector tail of the lead wire 10; and inserting the pin-shafts 11b to 14b into the through holes 9a to 9d, and in addition, electrically connecting the pin-shaft inserted into a lower electrode plate 3 through a conductive adhesive 15 to electrode ends 6c, 7c, 6d, 7d.
Abstract:
A pressure detection unit is disposed in a peripheral portion of a panel member of an information input device for detecting a press operation to the panel member. The pressure detection unit includes a first substrate, a second substrate disposed to face the first substrate, a pressure sensitive layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, and a first electrode provided on the first substrate and a second electrode provided on the second substrate for detecting resistance change via the pressure sensitive layer, the first electrode and the second electrode being provided at positions not facing each other along normal lines of the first substrate and the second substrate. The first electrode, the second electrode and the pressure sensitive layer together form a series circuit in the form of a loop.
Abstract:
A pressure detection unit is disposed in a peripheral portion of a panel member of an information input device in order to detect a press operation to the panel member. The pressure detection unit includes a first substrate, a second substrate disposed to face the first substrate, pressure sensitive layers disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate and a first electrode provided on the first substrate and a second electrode provided on the second substrate for detecting resistance change via the pressure sensitive layers, respectively, the first electrode and the second electrode being provided at positions not facing each other on normal lines of the first substrate and the second substrate.
Abstract:
A two-fluid nozzle 34 for spraying, toward a processing target object, droplets of a processing solution which are formed by mixing the processing solution discharged from a liquid discharge portion 48 and a gas discharged from a gas discharge opening 52 can uniformly spray the droplets of the processing solution having small diameters. Here, the liquid discharge portion 48 includes a multiple number of liquid discharge openings 47 arranged along a circle inside the gas discharge opening 52, and the multiple number of liquid discharge openings 47 discharge the processing solution in an outward direction of the circle.
Abstract:
An object of the present invention is to provide a touch panel having a press detection function, which makes it possible to suppress degradation of visibility of a display unit of a display device even when mounted on an electronic device, and also to improve a pressure measuring precision. For this purpose, the touch panel of the present invention includes a first substrate, a second substrate disposed oppose to the first substrate, a pair of electrodes disposed on either one of opposed surfaces of the respective substrates or disposed separately on both of the surfaces, pressure sensitive ink members disposed with a gap from at least one of the pair of electrodes, each of the pressure sensitive ink members having an electrical characteristic varied by a pressing force applied thereto, and a gap retaining member for bonding the first and second substrates to each other and for retaining a gap between each of the pressure sensitive inks and at least one of the pair of electrodes, wherein the pair of electrodes are disposed in a frame shape along an edge portion of the first or second substrate, and the pressure sensitive ink members are scattered along the edge portion of the first or second substrate so that, when the first or second substrate is deformed upon an application of an external force, at least one of them is made in contact with both of the pair of electrodes so as to make the two electrodes conductive to each other.
Abstract:
In a touch-input-function added protective panel for an electronic instrument display window having an FPC that takes out an electrical signal by way of a through hole made in a lower electrode panel, an adhesive layer that bonds a lower electrode panel and an upper electrode sheet to each other, has a connection hole connected to the through hole, plural dot spacers are fixed and arranged in the connection hole and between the lower electrode panel upper surface at the peripheral edge of the through hole and the upper electrode sheet, so as to be separated from one another, and further an electroconductive adhesive is filled from the through hole into the connection hole, the gap interval of which is maintained by the dot spacers.
Abstract:
An assembly method is capable of assembling a transfer mechanism which transfers a target and includes a pick unit for holding the target, a slide unit for sliding the pick unit and a drive unit for driving the slide unit. The assembly method includes installing a lifting mechanism for lifting the units at a ceiling portion of a transfer chamber where the transfer mechanism is accommodated; and assembling the units loaded into the transfer chamber inside the transfer chamber by using the lifting mechanism.
Abstract:
A robot safety device, which is provided between a drive shaft of a robot and an actuator for driving the drive shaft and prevents unexpected action to a user positioned around the robot, and in which such a possibility that a robot damages a person is detected and the detection is utilized as a trigger to quickly stop the driving force for the robot. The device is provided with a transmission part which transmits to the drive shaft an output from the actuator, an acceleration operation corresponding part which mechanically generates corresponding to the transmission accelerating operation of the transmission part caused by the actuator, regulation auxiliary force for regulating the operation of the transmission part caused by the output from the actuator, and a regulation part which is driven by the regulation auxiliary force generated by the accelerating operation corresponding part and regulates the operation of the transmission part.